Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Private A. Reid, Machine Gun Corps (Infantry), who was killed in action in July 1917

British War and Victory Medals (82693 Pte. A. Reid, M.G.C.), together with related Memorial Plaque 1914-18 (Alfred Reid), good very fine and better (3) £100-120

Alfred Reid, who was born in Waterside, Ayrshire, and formerly a member of the Scottish Rifles, was killed in action on 29 July 1917, while serving in 228th Company, Machine Gun Corps (Infantry). The son of William and Mary Reid of Dunaskin, Ayshire, and the husband of Christina Reid of Grantly Gardens, Shawlands, Glasgow, he was 30 years of age, has no known grave and is commemorated on a memorial at Essex Farm Cemetery.